ABSTRACT

John Maynard Keynes was the most influential economist of the 20th Century, whose doctrines had a huge impact on American prosperity in the years following the Second World War. This new book by John Philip Jones describes the main features of Keynes's work, including the fiscal and monetary policies he recommended, together with a detailed trackin

chapter |4 pages

Introduction: Why Keynes matters

chapter 1|19 pages

Keynes’s legacy, 70 years later

chapter 2|18 pages

Three signposts

chapter 3|21 pages

Consumer demand and where it leads

chapter 4|14 pages

Investment demand and where it leads

chapter 5|22 pages

The rate of interest

chapter 6|18 pages

What should the government be doing?

chapter 7|17 pages

Floating on an ocean of expectations

chapter 8|21 pages

keynes the man

chapter 9|17 pages

Twenty years of guerrilla infighting

chapter 10|31 pages

Keynes, England and the world

chapter 11|13 pages

keynes the prophet